PHP parsing error

Question

I have a string like this:

{\"lat\":37.790388261934424,\"lng\":-122.46047996826172},{\"lat\":37.789608231530124,\"lng\":-122.46344112701416}

And when I tried to get rid of the double quotes with something like this:

$data = str_replace('\"','"',$date);

I got this error:

Unexpected character in input:  '\\' (ASCII=92) state=1

I also got that error running the following without the previous line:

$data = json_decode($data);

Any ideas why this is happening? Is this a sign that I am escaping twice somewhere? Or is the issue something else?

can you please show us the full code of assigning the variable up to the json_decode? — ysrb
– ysrb, Commented Apr 3, 2011 at 3:10

Alex · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-03 03:10:43Z

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Don't use str_replace() to strip off slashes. Use stripslashes().

Something like this:

$data = json_decode(stripslashes($data));

answered Apr 3, 2011 at 3:10

Alex

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